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Friday, December 7, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

PLAIN 'TALK

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

By AL SEGAL

he

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

most serious-minded gentleman called on me
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introduced himself, "am a friend of the Jews and you, I believe,
have a large public among the Jews."
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"I hope so," I replied, "but you can't always tell. People do
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"In any event," he said, "you appear to have a considerable
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN circulation and for that reason I come to you. It's a matter of a
Publisher, CY AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
voyage to the moon."
The gentleman was far from the crackpot type. From long
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Detroit 26, Michigan
experience I know the crackpot in all his varieties. The crackpot
her to her knees. The ruling class suffered generally is a drab-looking person and his shoes need shining badly
through the war. Their sons were killed but he has a bright glint in his eyes.
What Price Pearl Harbor
This man was neatly dressed and his eyes contained the steady
along with the common people. Their fam- serene
of a sane and thoughtful man. So I couldn't feel that
Americans will never forget Pearl Har- ilies had to endure wartime hardships. this was look
just another screwball to be brushed off. I regarded him
bor Day, the day we were caught unpre- They were taxed almost out of existence. with most respectful attention.
pared. When the next time comes, we They did not dare to protest against tax-
"Are you perhaps a public relations man for one of the air-
will be prepared.
ation like our unbombed wealthy did here. lines?" I asked. I know something of the new and startling things
the airlines are planning. I shouldn't be surprised to hear of them
Will there be a next time? Will we be
But the war is over. What now is the starting regular schedules to the moon any day.
"No," the gentleman replied, "I'm not connected with any of
prepared? For what will we be prepared? outlook. When the whole world is wait-
There is only one way to foretell the fu- ing for rebuilding, when that rebuilding the airlines. My trip to the moon is entirely non-commercial.
ture and that is by closely examining the can give us a prosperity for years to There's no profit in it at all. I'm not interested in making more
past. What is the past? Why did we have come, we have strikes that imperil our money."
He explained that he was a scientist—a physicist who had long
two world wars in one generation? What own security and deny to the suffering been working on rocket propulsion and had at last perfected a
do we have to beware of lest we have a and starving of Europe the succor that rocket that will go all the way to the moon with 1,000 passengers
can restore them to life and happiness. at a time.
third?
"But why go to the moon?" I asked. "Tell me why should I
Let us accept one thing as a funda- Why? Why?
want to go to the moon?" -
"My great interest in the rocket is not only that of a scientist
mental basis from which to start. The rich
Because blind selfishness and greed for
it also concerns the Jewish problems," he said. "I believe that
and the powerful want to stay rich and power are primarily interested in destroy- but
in this rocket I have the solution of the Jewish problem .. . What
powerful. To keep their great wealth and ing the gains of organized labor which I propose is the emigration of the Jews to the moon. This is nothing
to get more, many of these people will threaten their vested interests. The weal- fantastic, mind you. This rocket is my gift to the Jews as their
disregard lives, liberty, justice, democra- thy and the powerful are determined at good friend."
He had looked over the world, "and what place on the face
cy, religion and anything and everything all costs to remain wealthy and powerful.
of the earth is left for Jews? Even our great democracies that
else in the world that may come between No expense is too great, even if it threat-
used - to be so proud to say they were the refuge of the oppressed
them and their wealth.
ens our very existence.
do not take Jews. So they don't want you on the earth? Well,
leave the earth. There's still the uncorrupted moon."
Nothing shows so clearly how thin the
But let these people use a little intelli- then, His
twinkled humorously; there was something of the
Allied bond is, how false the protestations gent selfishness if selfish they must be. Let sardonic .eyes
comedian in them. Then I knew for sure that he was la)
of friendship, than the fact that against them help the world to peace and it will crazy man, since there is no such laughter in the minds of the
the Indonesians, our former Allies, Jap- redound to their own profit. If world isane.
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anese troops are now being used by the

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markets are built up over the vast surface
of the globe; and all the peoples every-
British.
So let us for once be realistic and see where can buy all they need, profits will
r
be so huge that the great money men can
just what the score is.
By PHINEAS K. BIRON
continue to be wealthy, wealthier even
World War One was fought for world than they dream.
markets, that the wealthy might become
Let them think. Let everybody think. REPORTAGE . . .
wealthier. Immediately after that war,
Defense organizations should investigate the consistent reports
know that Montreal,
Canada, is once more the scene of violent anti-Semi-
something happened that gave an inkling Let us all be informed, so ,we pay • knowl-
tic incidents ... Newspapers don't pay any attention to these occur-
of how the various forces were lined up. who and what is our enemy. Par
rences, but recent happenings are revolting symptoms of rampant
American and British forces invaded Rus- edge is power.
anti-Semitism .. . Among other things, synagogues have been van-
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If
Pearl
Harbor
is
to
mean
anything
at
sia and fought against the Bolshevik ar-
dalized . . . Which reminds us that David Fried, of New York, has
mies. This was after Russia was definitely all, let it mean that we as a nation are sent in the following apt quotation: "After the war the center of
out of the war with Germany, after the more determined than ever that our dead anti-Semitism will shift from the European continent to North and
shall not have died in vain, that this gov- South America" . . . This prediction was penned by Prof. Salo
Czar was off the throne.
ernment of the people shall be truly of Baron of Columbia University . . . And we don't like the slant of
What happened was never much publi- the people and by the people and thus the article "Rich 'Refugees'-18 Karat headaches," in th November
27th issue of Look magazine . , . It is untimely .. . The editorial
cized. The American and British troops shall not perish from the earth.
box above the article reads: " 'Refugees' is quoted in the title of this
refused to fight against the Russians up
article because the few emigres cited here are smearing thousands
in the cold of the Arctic Circle. They
of honest refugees who have fought for the U. S., paid taxes, con-
were on the verge of mutiny. So they
tributed richly to our culture". . . But even this box will not undo
Congratulations
the bad effect which the article will have on the average reader. • . .
were finally withdrawn.
Congratulations and best wishes to Am- THIS AND THAT . . .
Why were our troops invading Russia,
More power to the Chronicle-Star of Pascagoula, Mississippi .. .
a country against which we had never de- vets, American Veterans of World War
blasts Senator Bilbo in realistic political language that will do hi.;
clared war? It was because the powers II, for organizing and getting off to such It re-election
hopes no good . . . The poster "These Immortal Chap-
that be were determined to smash the a good start. This country needs an or- lains," available through the Institute for American Democracy, 369
threat of Communism before it ever got ganization like this.
Lexington Avenue, New York, should be placarded all over the
We commend you particularly because country ... Prof. Albert Einstein, whose home near Berlin was con-
started.
fiscated by the Nazis and later became the home of a prominent
Again in Hungary, after the first world in your declaration of principles you rec- Gauleiter, received a huge case from Berlin the other day . • . An
ognize
that
this
war
was
only
won
on
the
war, the United States withheld food
accompanying letter informed him that the Russian commander of
from the starving population until the military front and has yet to be won on the occupied zone in which Einstein's home is situated was very
happy to return to him the books which were found intact in the
government there should fall. Herbert the sociological and ideological fronts.
scientist's
home. • . . When the professor opened the case he found
Liberty
and
justice
are
not
just
words.
Hoover, then food administrator and later
in it a most complete collection of Nazi literature ... Einstein's own
president of the United States,was respon- It is organizations like Amvets who put books had been burned, and replaced by Nazi propaganda volumes . .
sible for using hunger as a political weap- meaning and life into these words.
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So go to it, Amvets. Your purpose is
on in much the same way as the oppon-
ents of UNRRA are using starvation as a worthy, your start is auspicious. The
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN
whole country will have its eyes on you.
political force against Russia today.
The fear of Communism continued in Make sure that what the country sees is
the hearts of the powerful long after the worth seeing.
first war. The wealthy people who built
up Hitler were setting him up as a de-
stroyer of Russia. They approved of Mus-
The Palestine Situation
solini with his newly invented Fascism.
As one looks at the situation in Pales-
These people of wealth and power con-
trolled the state -policy of both Great Brit- tine, the Jew seemingly has little to com-
ain and the United States. To a certain fort him. The British have an immense
extent they still do now. And the fight, army equipped with colossal machinery of
though ostensibly against Communism, warfare, from tanks to rockets and ma-
was and still is a lot more than that. It chine guns. More than 2,000 vehicles and
was and still is a fight against democracy, 15,000 troops invaded the all Jewish city
a fight to prevent the rise of the common of Tel Aviv last week.
Dr. Silver, who is now in Palestine, as-
man, a fight to keep the privileged few in
power at the expense of enslaving the sured the Jews of the Yishuv that the five
million American Jews stand behind
many.
That is the essence of Fascism, whether them. Can the Jews of Palestine expect
practiced in far-off Arabia, or whether any real help from American Jewry?
Certainly, it cannot be denied that if
pursued here in our own fair country. The
ruling powers of Great Britain were not this were the year of the Presidential
interested in democracy. Look how easily election in America, the British Govern-
they sold Czechoslovakia down the „river ment would not be acting as it does, be-
at Munich just before World War Two cause the American people, now indiffer-
began. Everyone knew that the Czechs ent, would be ready with their votes to
had the most democratic government in express a point of view. The British Gov-
all Europe. And also , had the best muni- ernment would then have to heed that
tions plants in all Eprope, whereby Ger- point of view. The American GovernMent,
many might more easily destroy the great in turn,: would be very delicately reckon-
ing 'with the wishes of the American Jew-
enemy, Russia.
ish
voters. American Jews have a power
The madman, Hitler, bit the hand that
if
they
elect to exert it.
fed him. He turned on England and beat

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